Bio-Science and Agriculture

About the Book Lady Park Wood was set aside as a "natural" reserve for ecological research in 1944, and the trees, shrubs and ground vegetation hav...

About the Book This book features influential scholarly research and technical contributions, professional trajectories, disciplinary shifts, perso...

Women are contributing to disciplines once the sole domain of men. Field biology has been no different. The history of women field biologists, embe...

About the Book Phelan’s dynamic approach to teaching biology is the driving force behind What Is Life?―the most successful new non-majors biolo...

About the Book This edition of Water Dynamics in Plant Production describes the basic scientific principles of water transport in the soil-plant-at...

Viruses and Society is geared towards professionals and students in college-level introductory biology courses devoted to understanding viruses, va...

About the Book A companion to Urban Pest Management , this book builds on the issues of insect pests in urban settings to discuss control strategie...

Understanding Nature is a new kind of ecology textbook: a straightforward resource that teaches natural history and ecological content, and a way t...

About the Book This accessible introduction to animal behaviour provides an authoritative yet reader-friendly guide for the interested naturalist. ...

Gut microbiomes are dynamic communities varying from population to population and throughout life. In western societies, a toxic metabolic shift of...

A close look at the fossil record offers many clues about the origins of life on our planet, how it diversified and why certain species survived wh...

About the Book The History of British Birds reviews our knowledge of avifaunal history over the last 15,000 years, setting it in its wider historic...

About the Book This book focuses on marine and estuarine soft sediments as complex and essential habitats for an astonishing variety of animals and...

About the Book This book provides a concise and up-to-date review of current knowledge on the biological processes affecting animal welfare. It is ...

About the Book The impending threats of catastrophic climate change and peak oil are driving our society towards increased use of biomass for energ...

About the Book In agriculture, water management is key to ensuring good and sustained crop yields, maintaining soil health, and safeguarding the lo...

About the Book Sustainable Food Systems from Agriculture to Industry: Improving Production and Processing addresses the principle that food supply ...

Agriculture is one of the oldest and most global human enterprises, and as the world struggles with sustainable practices and policies, agricultura...

About the Book Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of care...

About the Book Sugarcane: Agricultural Production, Bioenergy and Ethanol explores this vital source for "green" biofuel from the breeding and care ...

About the Book Sugarcane Biorefinery, Technology and Perspectives provides the reader with a current view of the global scenario of sugarcane biore...

About the Book The newest edition of Knisely’s Student Handbook for Writing in Biology is the helping hand your students are looking for, offerin...

About the Book Sorghum Biochemistry: An Industrial Perspective explores the many uses for sorghum in industry and biofuels. Not only does it offer ...

About the Book This textbook presents the concepts and processes involved in the soil-plant-atmosphere system as well as its applications in the wa...

About the Book Signal transduction is an array of processes that that allow extracellular information to be converted into an intracellular message...

Perception in animals is a fascinating and challenging subject that calls to students from many disciplines. The aim of this book is to provide a k...

About the Book Oxygen uptake for metabolic energy demand and the elimination of the resulting carbon dioxide is one of the essential processes in a...

About the Book The rise of the multi-billion dollar ancestry testing industry points to one immutable truth about us as human beings: we want to kn...

The intended audience of this textbook are plant and animal breeders, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in biological and agricultura...

About the Book Reversible phosphorylation is one of the major mechanisms of controlling protein activity in all eukaryotic cells. This new edition ...

About the Book Although prokaryotes (which include bacteria) lack a nucleus, they have genomic DNA and the study of their genes is an important are...

About the Book The study of primate ecology and conservation has advanced rapidly in recent years. This practical volume brings together a group of...

About the Book Many teachers feel that they lack the background knowledge to teach plant science effectively. Primary Plants sets out to address th...

About the Book J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964) is widely appreciated as one of the greatest and most influential British scientists of the 20th centur...

Plants, Power and Profit provides a clear and sober assessment of the economic, social, political and environmental effects of plant biotechnology,...

About the Book Plant Pathology explores the topic of plant pathology and aligns classic studies and knowledge in the topic with the current state o...

About the Book For several years there has been a growing interest in understanding the dynamics of parasites in ecosystems, as well as the diversi...

About the Book Organic Farming: Global Perspectives and Methods explores the core definition and concepts of organic farming in sustainability, its...

About the Book The fascinating area of Nutrigenomics describes this daily communication between our diet and our genome. This book describes how nu...

About the Book The steroid or nuclear receptor superfamily is an important group of transcription factors that is studied by a large and varied num...

About the Book New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Microbes in Soil, Crop and Environmental Sustainability r...

About the Book Progress in genetic knowledge is profoundly affecting medical practice, and no clinical specialty has more diseases associated with ...

About the Author HARVEY LODISH is Professor of Biology and Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a F...

About the Book Molecular Biology is the story of the molecules of life, their relationships, and how these interactions are controlled. It is an ex...

About the Book The human genome of three billion letters has been sequenced. So have the genomes of thousands of other organisms. With unprecedente...

About the Book A source for health professionals and nursing students who need to learn the basic microbiological concepts involved in the care of ...

About the Book Microbiology For Dummies (9781119544425) was previously published as Microbiology For Dummies (9781118871188). While this version fe...